[385] Dryad. The embodied life-principle of the tree, a tree-nymph.
[386] Pannonian lynx. Pannonia, now Hungary. Lynxes were also imported from Gaul.
[387] Where you, Caius, are, there will I, Caia, be. An ancient formula, in which the bride vowed faith and obedience to the bridegroom.
[388] Zeuxis of Heracleia in Greece, a famous artist, who lived about 397 B.C. His contest with Parrhasius, in which he painted grapes so deceptive, that they lured the birds, is well known.
[389] Peripatetics (wanderers.) A name given to Aristotles’ school of philosophers, from its founder’s habit of delivering his lectures, not seated, but walking about.
[390] Cabbage Sprouts. In the spring the young cabbage shoots (cimae, prototomi) were eaten, in the summer and autumn the larger stalks (caules cauliculi) see Mart. Ep. V. 78.
[391] Cybium (κύβιον). A sort of mayonnaise made of salt tunny-fish, cut into squares. See Mart. Ep. V. 78, where the sliced eggs are not lacking. There were two kinds of leek (porrum:) porrum sectile (chives) and porrum capitatum.
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Transcriber's Notes
The following table summarizes the various textual issues encountered, and their resolution. A number of punctuation errors and inconsistencies have been corrected. Where the errors seem most likely to be attributable to printer's errors, they have been corrected as noted below.